Sentence examples for absurdly modest from inspiring English sources
To outsiders, the proposed law seems absurdly modest in comparison with the battle surrounding it.
Typically, she was absurdly modest about this promotion, and needed much persuasion to take on the job.
And its special pleasure was its wit: immaculately wry and sharp but somehow lovingly extracted from the orchestra with an absurdly modest repertory of gestures.
Addressing an assembly of Somali businessmen one evening, he appealed for donations to pay for a list of absurdly modest projects: building a four-mile road from the livestock-inspection station to the port; replacing road signs on the lone highway, long ago stripped bare for the valuable metal; constructing a small hospital.
That figure is now absurdly low.
Extremely high and absurdly low numbers also produce "notes".
That is an absurdly low number.
Absurdly, even a modest proposal by the European Commission to raise quotas by just 2% in April has met stiff resistance from France, Germany, Austria and Finland.Perverse effects abound.
The rooms were small and absurdly inexpensive.
It is widely believed in Washington that there is no chance the gun lobby and the new Republican majority in the House would ever permit passage of the modest ideas for tightening America's absurdly lax gun laws that have surfaced since the massacre in Tucson.
The glum-nervy smile, the sidelong glance of the slightly bug eyes, that modest arching of the brows: all the Maguire tics were ready to roll, and there is something absurdly winning in Peter's expression as he realizes what heights he is now at liberty to scale.
